It's only been a few days since the news broke that Apple TV had reached a groundbreaking deal with fantasy titan Brandon Sanderson to create a TV and movie fra
I felt the movies were a pretty good rendition. Heck even the license with the ending I fealt was done well. Granted I would have much prefered he followed more closely to the source. Still I can’t think of anything done as well as it relative to source material.
Im not so sure he would. He is not studying story but how to do a good job of bringing written words to video. For what he is doing it makes sense to study jackson’s process of brining a story to the big screen.
From what Tolkien himself wrote about proposed adaptations, compared to Jackson’s actual adaptation, on top of what Christopher Tolkien himself said about Jackson’s adaptation, I’m very sure he would take offense at the idea that Sanderson was studying Tolkien and not Jackson.
I felt the movies were a pretty good rendition. Heck even the license with the ending I fealt was done well. Granted I would have much prefered he followed more closely to the source. Still I can’t think of anything done as well as it relative to source material.
I completely agree. I love the movies and think they’re probably the best anyone could possibly have done with the property.
Even so, Sanderson is studying Jackson here, and Tolkien would take offense at the implication that he was studying him (that is, studying Tolkien).
Im not so sure he would. He is not studying story but how to do a good job of bringing written words to video. For what he is doing it makes sense to study jackson’s process of brining a story to the big screen.
From what Tolkien himself wrote about proposed adaptations, compared to Jackson’s actual adaptation, on top of what Christopher Tolkien himself said about Jackson’s adaptation, I’m very sure he would take offense at the idea that Sanderson was studying Tolkien and not Jackson.
They were excellent but Tolkien would likely have hated them.
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